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Mr. Chidambaram told the Rajya Sabha that a final draft of the new action plan against the Naxals will be issued in the next few days.

Home Minister P. Chidambaram told Parliament today that the government is on the brink on unveiling a new comprehensive action plan designed to combat the increasingly brutal insurgency by Maoist rebels in central India.

In the latest bloody battle, at least 70 police were reported missing Chhattisgarh Wednesday after a major gun battle with 200 Naxalites, as the Maoists also are known, in thick forest and heavy rain. Read More »

In the wake of another horrendous attack by Maoists in Chhattisgarh, Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram is clearly on the defensive. But in an interview with NDTV, we heard little of efforts to re-think the government’s counter-insurgency policy or little evidence that government forces are going to be dramatically increased or better-equipped to eradicate the menace. (The Home Minister only said he would return to the Cabinet to seek to broaden his “limited mandate” but he didn’t sound very hopeful.)

Instead, Mr. Chidambaram focused on what he views as unhelpful elements of civil society. “There is a lot for which civil society organizations have to answer” in the same way that the government has to answer when there are police excesses or human rights are violated, he said. Read More »

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